Bug 704987

Summary:	RFE: Provide chardev_add and chardev_del commands to allow virtio serial channel hotplug
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Component:	qemu-kvm	Assignee:	Virtualization Maintenance <virt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
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Version:	6.1	CC:	amit.shah, juzhang, mkenneth, virt-maint
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Bug Blocks:	704955

Description Daniel Berrangé 2011-05-16 09:38:08 UTC

Description of problem:
In order to support hotplug of virtio serial channels, it is neccessary to be able to hotplug/unplug chardevs. This requires two new QMP commands

  chardev_add  CONFIG
  chardev_del  ID

With 'CONFIG' being the same set of args available to the -chardev command line arg.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.161.el6

How reproducible:
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Comment 2 Amit Shah 2011-05-16 12:22:39 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 676568 ***